Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2000/08/13/03:06:37
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Prashant TR wrote:
> In any case, I think that the DJGPP source distribution should
> come with the files under `tests/' already edited and converted
> to the DOS-style CRLF EOL format (where appropriate). (If you
> decide to accept this advice, you need to take into consideration
> that someone might run config.bat again, so the conversion Sed
> scripts should be prepared for multiple editing.)
>
> Yes, it actually does. It checks for *.orig files and always runs
> "sed" on them. The only problem here is that the *.orig will have to
> be distributed which increase the package size a bit.
I don't see this as a problem, since the files are small.
> 5) A note: since `true' and `false' are now programs, you need to
> make sure shl20b.dsm includes commands to uninstall the old shell
> scripts by those names before installing the binaries.
>
> Ok, but what do I need to do for this one? In other words, what are
> the lines to be added in the DSM?
Here's an example (from the Groff 1.16 distribution):
builtin-pre-install-script: command:\
rm -rf /dev/env/DJDIR/share/groff
> 6) Finally, it looks like the DJGPP source distribution will require
> to run the configure script before building. If that is true,
> I'd like to suggest to make any reasonable effort so that the
> sources could come already configured. AFAIK, every other ported
> package does that; we should try not to require users to have all
> those additional utilities installed just to rebuild a package.
>
> I uploaded a configured package last time, without any problems. It's
> in v2gnu/beta/shl20is.zip.
Okay, then I was simply mistaken in drawing conclusions. Sorry.
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